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Flaming Star is a 1960 American Western film starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, and Steve Forrest, based on the book Flaming Lance (1958) by Clair Huffaker. Critics agreed that Presley gave one of his better acting performances as the mixed-blood "Pacer Burton", a dramatic role. The film was directed by Don Siegel and had a working title of ...
He was also paid $250,000 royalties from each of his 17 soundtrack albums from the movies, giving Elvis $4.2 million. Adjusted for inflation this amounts to $44.3 million from soundtrack album royalties on top of his usual salaries and bonuses. Elvis was in the Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll for seven years, making $1 million per film. [42] [43]
Elvis' former wife Priscilla, family friend Jerry Schilling and others discuss details, including some personal experience, concerning the triumpant comeback performance for Elvis which aired on national television on December 3, 1968 and proved to be a gamble, but would result in his music career being revived following a long period of being more recognized for acting in feature films.
The song "Flaming Star" would be the title track of Elvis Sings Flaming Star, available at first only through select retail stores featuring products by the Singer sewing machine company as a promotional tie-in with Presley's 1968 Christmas television special, which Singer had sponsored.
"Flaming Star" is a song first recorded by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1960 motion picture Flaming Star. It was also released in February 1961 as the first track of an extended play titled Elvis by Request: Flaming Star and 3 Other Great Songs. The song peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1]
The 'Elvis' movie relied on extensive research by director Baz Luhrmann and stars Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, but some parts aren't quite accurate.
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Elvis Presley was indisputably the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, but there’s no denying his bold sense of style goes down in history, too. One of many famous facets of the late musician’s style ...